I need to ask a question. A serious one because I don't game on my recently bought PC a hell of a lot and I have all the major launchers on there.
Back when I first got my PC I definitely had some issues on the Windows Store. Downloads not resuming, downloads not starting, downloads inexplicably stopping and not starting, or just restarting all over again.
But I keep seeing words like "broken" thrown around with such ease and I have to wonder if people are A) Actually using PCs B) Have update their PC in a while.
As I said earlier, I don't use my PC a hell of a lot, but when I do happen to use the Windows Store now it seems to do it's job? I start a download....it downloads just like any other app store.
Am I missing something?
In 2018, with all the updates and such, the store seems to be at the very least functional. Some of the responses in this thread you would think it's in exactly the same shape it was in 2 years ago or something which just makes me wonder whether people are actually using it or not.
Dude, you are better than this. Quit trying to invalidate other people's experiences because "it works for me hue hue." .We have literally had to have mods warn people they will start handing out bans for "it works for me" posts in Windows 10 store threads.
Of COURSE it works for you. It works for many people. No one would purchase windows games if they didn't work for anyone at all. Like. Duh dude.
That doesn't mean there aren't a gigantic number or people for whom it doesn't work.
Every time there's a thread on this people carefully document the ridiculous lengths they go to to get stuff working, or sometimes, not working at all. Like seriously that's it for them. The product just flat doesn't work. I have never heard of a steam game that physically could not work with no recourse for someone even 3rd party options. But this is something that has happened to a significant amount of people.
The amount of times I have had to reinstall Gears of War 4 for issues ranging from certain objects just....not being installed, to UI elements being missing, to multiplayer flat out not working, and the issues I had with graphics despite meeting the system requirements easily, and the amount of time I spend messing with Xbox Live trying to get co-op to work, to crashes and crashes and crashes, to the game just not loading and instead hanging on spash screen, to the main menu being more sluggish than if I was running it on a 2003 laptop, like. It's almost more time than I've spent playing the game, and it's only contributed to my lack of desire to play it.
Every time I have downloaded a demo, yes even recently, I have had to do so, from scratch, at least three times. Every time I've tried a full game I do not know whether I'll just get it hanging on splash screen. This still happens.
My library repeatedly will act like I don't own something. I've been kicked out if games like Gears 4 for not owning a license supposedly. One day less than a year ago it did it repeatedly so I just quit playing the game. Recently I looked and certain things werent in my library. I tried to download ilomilo which it said on the store page I owned, but when I did so it tried to sell it to me. No amount of hacks to reset the store made it work so eventually I just gave up. I have never had to wrestle this much with a store.
People are having instances where they have to straight up reinstall windows and for some THAT doesn't work.
Dude. The store is horrible. And I'm tired of seeing people try to downplay it because it worked for them.
Of COURSE it works for some people, dude.
